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Deepgram – Speech Recognition for Enterprises Raises $12M in Series A

Posted on March 18, 2020 by Salman Sarfraz

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Deepgram, a speech recognition company offering enterprises to build analytical insights from their audio data with highest accuracy and affordability has raised $12M in Series A round. The funding round was led by Wing Venture Capital with help from …

Proxy – Touchless Door Unlocker & Device Access Platform Raises $42M in Series B

Posted on March 16, 2020 by Salman Sarfraz

Proxy, a smartphone-based digital identity platform that interacts with devices through BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) signals without touching them has raised $42M in Series B round led by Scale Venture Partners in participation with Kleiner Perkins, Y Combinator, Silicon …

Flutterwave – African Payment Platform for Businesses Raises $35M in Series B

Posted on January 21, 2020 by Salman Sarfraz

Flutterwave, an African fintech startup graduated from Y Combinator S16 batch that allows businesses to make and receive payments has secured $35M investment in Series B round. The funding round was led by e.ventures and Greycroft in participation with …

Pyka – Unmanned Electric Airplane Manufacturer Raises $11M in Seed Round

Posted on December 25, 2019 by Salman Sarfraz

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Pyka, a battery-powered autonomous airplane maker targeting aircraft spraying business market, added to our portfolio in 2017 has collected a whopping $11M in seed round. The funding round was led by Prime Movers Lab with the help of Y …

Gravitational – Secure Access & Application Deployment Service Raises $25M in Series A

Posted on November 20, 2019 by Salman Sarfraz

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Update: Gravitational is now Teleport.

Gravitational, an Oakland, California based company allowing its customers to securely access servers and deploy cloud-native applications to any Linux-based infrastructure has raised $25M in Series A round led by Kleiner Perkins in …

Eight Sleep – Healthy Sleep Technology Raises $40M

Posted on November 6, 2019 by Salman Sarfraz

Starting as a smart bed cover under the name of Luna and now evolving into a sleep fitness company offering smart beds and accessories for healthy sleep, Eight Sleep (formerly known as Eight and one of our portfolio startups) has …

Sensely – Chatbot-based Platform for Patients and Insurance Plan Members Raises $15M

Posted on October 28, 2019 by Salman Sarfraz

Founded in 2013 by Adam Odessky and Ivana Schnur, Sensely, a San Francisco based HealthTech platform that improves engagement with insurance plan members and patients using its Avatar based chatbot technology has raised $15M in Venture funding.

The funding …

Algolia – Search-as-a-Service for Websites and Apps Raises $110M

Posted on October 15, 2019 by Salman Sarfraz

Algolia, one of our fastest growing portfolio startups has bagged a whopping $110M funding in a Series C round led by Accel in participation with Salesforce Ventures. With 8000 customers and 70 billion queries served per month, Algolia is …

Oasis – Photo-real avatars over a synthetic video chat network

Posted on September 23, 2019 by John Owens

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Oasis is a synthetic reality social app focused on meeting new people & making new friends.

Founder Matt Mireles is an American technology entrepreneur and investor. Matt runs Oasis and is the founder of Guerrilla Capital, Dishcraft Robotics & …

Pesto – Career Accelerator for Software Engineers

Posted on September 18, 2019 by Mathew Vandervoort

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Pesto is an intensive training program to help software engineers in India break into international tech careers via full-time remote jobs.

Co-founders Ayush Jaiswal and Andrew Linfoot originally met in a co-working space and realised the disparity between software engineer …